**Singa - Development of highly-efficient hydrometallurgical recycling process to support Li-Ion battery recycling in UK and Singapore** Altilitech has invented a novel hydrometallurgical process that extracts nickel, cobalt, and lithium from black mass (shredded end-of-life electric vehicle lithium-ion batteries) in a quality/format that can be directly reused in battery manufacture. Having independently validated our highly-efficient, recycling process using black mass from a single battery chemistry-MC111, the project consortium will now design, develop, and trial the associated processes to enable high value material recovery, including critical metals, across a range of battery chemistries, as composition of black mass is very diversified from one OEM and/or application to another. During the 24-month industrial research, Altilitech's UK R&D-facility will process multiple black mass samples typical of a Southeast Asia supply chain. The black mass will be supplied from KGS (Singapore Partner), which, as part of this project, will design and commission an innovative mechanical process to break down spent lithium-ion batteries into materials such as aluminium, copper, and black mass. Knowledge exchange will be shared, with particular focus on material characterisation of the black mass chemistries, the volume and quality of recovered material, and identified process improvements. The project will conclude with a feasibility study into a 7,000 MT Singapore Plant (KGS and Altilitech Joint Venture) that will house, at-scale, KGS' front-end and Altiltech's back-end recycling processes, i.e. full end-to-end battery recycling.

Electric vehicles (EVs) help reduce carbon emissions and make UK cities cleaner and healthier by reducing pollution-related illnesses. The growth of electric vehicle sales in the UK in 2020 was up 180% in a year when new car sales were the lowest for 28 years. The challenge of how to deal with an increasing stockpile of batteries will soon become pressing to stop batteries ending up in landfill sites. End-of-life batteries also serve as a valuable secondary source of metals such as nickel, cobalt, and lithium, which are in scare supply. Altilitech LTD is a critical metals company focused on providing low-cost and sustainable supply solutions for clean transportation and recycling. It has developed a new chemical process that recycles lithium ion batteries from electric vehicles at the end of their useful life. The process has already been proven at the laboratory scale under a research program in partnership with the University of Plymouth As the next step in the development of an industrial-scale recycling process, Altilitech have designed a 12 month program of Industrial Research to design and develop the industrial processes required to scale-up the process and create a stable, predictable recycling workflow capable of processing 400 kg per day of battery waste. Establishing technical feasibility of the technology at pilot scale is critical to us demonstrating EV battery recycling in the UK is both technically and commercial viable and provide the UK its own source of critical metals. A successful project will trigger the internal investment decision for the first large-scale plant in the UK processing 10,000 MT of batteries per year and will create 40-50 high skilled jobs by 2025\.